I'm So Tired of "Is This AI?"
I'm So Tired of "Is This AI?" The Substack witch hunt beginsStephen MooreJul 23, 20261615ShareSubstack in 2026AI detection is a futile exercise, and one will that will not matter in a few years time. The share of AI-generated articles has already surpassed human-created, and whether you like it or not, you are interacting with LLM-influenced work all the time. We’ve reached the critical mass, and there’s no going back unless the entire ecosystem collapses (in fairness, can’t rule that out yet).
- ▪I'm So Tired of "Is This AI?" The Substack witch hunt beginsStephen MooreJul 23, 20261615ShareSubstack in 2026AI detection is a futile exercise, and one will that will not matter in a few years time.
- ▪The share of AI-generated articles has already surpassed human-created, and whether you like it or not, you are interacting with LLM-influenced work all the time.
- ▪We’ve reached the critical mass, and there’s no going back unless the entire ecosystem collapses (in fairness, can’t rule that out yet).
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I'm So Tired of "Is This AI?" The Substack witch hunt beginsStephen MooreJul 23, 20261615ShareSubstack in 2026AI detection is a futile exercise, and one will that will not matter in a few years time. The share of AI-generated articles has already surpassed human-created, and whether you like it or not, you are interacting with LLM-influenced work all the time. We’ve reached the critical mass, and there’s no going back unless the entire ecosystem collapses (in fairness, can’t rule that out yet). AI detectors are unreliable, easily gamed and produce far too many false positives. The biggest irony here is that they are trained on mountains of human-written content, and now use that as a measuring stick to decide what’s human or not.
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